Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 09:24:07 +0000 From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> To: jt <jt101@gci.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cant install Message-ID: <3FF92D37.5010603@circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <3FF92C8A.1080401@circlesquared.com> References: <000801c3d358$03cbda60$e1fced18@jtvei72nsuh5m3> <3FF92C8A.1080401@circlesquared.com>
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Peter Risdon wrote: > jt wrote: > >> Hello. Not sure if this the right place to ask. Im farely new Unix >> and never used BSD before. I ran linux red hat like 2 or 3 years ago. >> Anyway, Im using the i386 version. Ive have not only burned the CDs, >> Burt also made NUMEROUS burnings of the floppies. >> > That was kind of him. > >> Thing is, My machine dont read the CDs or floppies. Ive changed the >> bios to read CD or Floppy first, But still remains a mystery why I >> cant install. Every time I try to boot with floppy in, it just says >> Hit Any Key To Reboot. Like the floppy isnt even there.BTW this is >> 5.2 Im refering too. Even tho I heard 4.9 or something is the most >> stable. >> >> Ive been trying to install this for almost 4 days now. And cant find >> help for it ANYwhere. Any suggestions would be helpfull. >> > You'll have downloaded disk images for the CDs and floppies. You then > need to make sure your CD burning software knows it is dealing with an > iso image, and you need to make the floppies using rawrite Correction - fdimage not rawrite (both do the same thing but fdimage is available from the ftp site you used to obtain your image files. Apologies for the pre-coffee mistake. > under Windows or dd if you still have your Linux machine. Burning the > CD as though the iso file is just an ordinary file, and copying the > floppy image to a disk without using the correct utility, will not work. > > If it sounds as though this might be your problem, read: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html > > > PWR. >
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